Ten Most Influential
Art Movements
Rebellions and revolution took place in the history of art movements.
Many movements that are now praised were denounced and mocked
at. Now they are one of the best ground breaking movements in the
history of the early 20th century. Below we will explore the ten most
influential art movements throughout history.
Renaissance
1400
With its Late Gothic elements
& Northern Renaissance
from
c., the Early Renaissance includes
1450 & Renaissance of Italy aka
High Renaissance (1492 to 1527).
Coincides with the Early
Netherlands(1450 to 1600.
The Late Renaissance/Mannerism/
Transitional Era also includes
(1520-1600)
Vitruvian Man c. 1490 by Leonardo da Vinci
Impressionism
1870
Impressionism was established
in France in the 19th century
when a crop of Parisian artists,
including Claude Monet, Pierre
Auguste Renoir, and Camille
Pissarro, became bored of their
studios, bundled their brushes,
paintings and canvasesand
headed outs ide.
Sunset on the River at Lavacourt, Winter Effect (1882) by Claude Monet via creatiebloq.com
Pointillism
1880
Pointillism is a painting technique
pioneered by the French artists
Georges Seurat and Paul Signac,
also known as 'stippling art' or
'dot art'. The duo branched off
from their Impressionist friends
to develop their tiny paint dabs
and strokes into distinct color
dots that shape coherent, complex
and dimensional images when
applied en mass (a little like our
modern-day pixels, if you will).
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86) by Georges Seurat via The Art Institute of Chicago
F Champenois Imprimeur Editeur (1897) by Alphonse Mucha via creativebloq
Art Nouvean
1890
The famous party animal slash
Frenchartist Henri de Toulouse
Lautrec was at the helm of Art
Nouveau, a movement that
between 1890 and 1910
flourished in Europe and the
US through architecture,
furniture, jewelry, posters
and illustrations.
Cubism
1907
"In 1907, Spain's Pablo Picasso
and French painter Georges
Braque invented this revolutionary
approach to portraying reality,
dubbed "the first abstract
style of modern art. The artistic
"odd couple" turned away from
more figurative forms and towards
total abstraction after meeting in
Paris, creating Cubism together.
Girl with Mandolin (1910) by Pablo Picasso via Modernism
Futurism
1909
Futurism was launched in
1909 by Italian poet and art
theorist Filippo Tommaso
Marinetti, influenced by the
thrilling moment when he
wrote down his car in a ditch
after swerving to miss a cyclist.
Bombardamento Aereo by Tullio Crali (1932) via creativebloq
Art Deco
1920
The Art Deco movement emerged
from Art Nouveau in the 1920s and
attempted to embellish mass
produced, functional constructions
such as clocks, cars and buildings.
It reached the height of its popularity
between the World Wars and sought
to represent luxury, glamour, technological
and social advancement (you'll get the
drift if you've seen The Great Gatsby).
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre’s Le Nord Express (1927)
Surrealism
1924
It may have been founded by
André Breton, the Parisian poet,
but the father of Surrealism is
undoubtedly Salvador Dalí of
Spain (of the alarmingly upturned
mustache). This artistic and literary
movement emerged in 1924,
drawing inspiration from the
psychoanalytical theories of
Sigmund Freud, who made a
career of tapping into his
patients' subconscious minds.
Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory (1931) via My Modern Met
Pop Art
1950
Pop Art was named by art critic
Lawrence Alloway primarily as a
British and American cultural
phenomenon that gained traction
in the late 1950s and 1960s,
because of the way it glorified
popular culture and elevated
commonplace, often unremarkable
objects such as soup cans, road
signs and hamburgers to iconic status.
Andy Warhol's iconic prints of Marilyn Monroe
Minimalism
1960
Minimalist art avoided artistic
expression, preferring to keep
things literal (as Frank Stella,
one of the founders of Minimalism,
said of the movement,' What
you see is what you see').
The key to this movement was
extreme simplicity, where the
medium and the materials
stole the show from the
artists behind them.
Frank Stella’s Harran II (1967) via Guggenheim.com
Source Credit
artland.com
canva.com